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Research Project
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Although the RBL assignment is still underway its great that we have to continuously plan what to carry out with the research project. NOT!!!!! it seems that due to an ectic schedule i have not got much time to plan what to carry out. Although when arranged a meeting for this afternoon with my mentor to discuss ideas that i would consider to carry out with the research project - i finally prepared what will be carried out as my research project. In recent Lectures taken students been discussing that they have no time for college etc etc and we all have these problems i take it? its three letters EMA , students expect to turn up to lecturers and collect their EMA money and not attempting their work, So for my Research Project with advice off my mentor he accpets that i can carry this out only if newport do (please god) "Future aspirations of students in BTEC first diploma and BTEC National diploma courses" this gives me a chance to look at past education achievements, current desired aspirations and their thoughts on achieving these achievements. it gives a chance within the questionaires to find out why did they come to college isit for EMA, sports academy or for qualifications.
I feel there are a number of students who are there for EMA and sports academy, but feel a small number are there for qualifications i look forward to carrying this project out and finding out the difference between the two courses.
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Tutorial or maybe not
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Another ectic week comes and goes but thats all part of the Course, After a lecture with the first years National diploma yesturday it seems that everyone is struggling to attempt the assignment, As the sports academy games were cancelled this week i decided in lecture yesturday to arrange a tutorial for the students, which will enable me to guide them in the right direction when attempting the assignment. The lecture is Exercise, Helath and lifestyle which only takes place once a week straight after academy training.There has been a bit of a problem with this lecture as students come 10-15 minutes late due to over run academy sessions, although i have been to see about this nothing seems to have changed as students are missing out on key information due to their lateness, so today was my chance to arrange a tutorial where we can have a catch up on what they have missed and to monitor how there progressing in other units.
So what happens when you arrange a tutorial and the students agree to get extra help?
YES, got it in one only 3 out of a possilbe 18 turn up, what more can you do when you offer help and they dont want to know, sometimes it frustrates me and i beat myself up over it, but the fact of the matter is like the saying goes you can lead a horse to the fountain, but cannot make him drink from it,
I keep informing my mentor and advice such as if their assignmnets are not in tomorrow only a pass they get, As a trainee lecturer i know what its like when youre strugggling on assignmnets but when the helps there they dont want to know.
although tutorial went ahead and we had a discussion about the assignment which all in all was a positive, when you see students reactions when progress is made is the best feeling ever and makes my job worth while.
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Unit7- Exercise, Health and lifestyle
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today was the first time where i was in charge of the group, luckily i take this group for sports coaching, so i have already bounded a relationship wioth them, up until now i have been only take bits and bobs of the lectures due to one staff member walking out and another one walking in.
in fiarness i really pray that i dont get observed from newport for this lecturer due to the fact the students havea packed day and have academy training before where they either turn up 5 minutes late dirty and sweaty or turn up 20 minutes late due to having a shower etc, i have tried having a word to see if they can finish ealry but no response due to it being only an hour training. therefore students are really wound up and impatient due to being hungry, i have sugguested that they should bring packed lunch and eat it after training whilst walking to lecture. I enjoy teaching this group but my GOD this lecturer can be bit of a nightmare many of them are not interested in the module and find it really hard to be motivated.
they had to do their presenttion on stratergies that help smoking and stress alcohol while students in ghropus were performing the others decided to throw paper balls around really testing my patience so a quick sudden change where i told the students that were presentating their powerpoints to sit down whilst i just stood there until i had complete silence, then stated that if they wanted to mess arouind then please feel free to go, but dont waste my time, there time and most of all the other students time who actually want to learn, its the same students who mess around and i said look ur task 3 in coaxching was a referal due to you not attending and laying up, if you want to do the same then expect to fail this coursework am not wasting my time helping you when you dont help yourself, your 18 years old not 12 your an adult know start acting like one. i reallly had been pushed to the limit this lecture but they realized that a laugh is a laugh but dont push me because they key factor to all of this is learning and i dont want them to spoil it.
i love what am doing but it gets its up and downs when its good its the best feeling ever and when its bad well its unexplainable.
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Football Academy
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today i managed the 2nd team, in which was a home fixture against Barry College before the game we were top of the league with Barry bottom of the league, during warm up my players seemed over confident and less concentrated, this is where i got them to go back to the changing and had a team talk stating that football is one of the funniest games in the world its all about on the day, i told my players where top of the league but things can turn in an instant in football underestimating a team can cause a major upset, i told them to go out enjoy the game and play as a team and challenged them by asking them to fight to keep this top place going.i knew before the game if we underestimate them we will lose but if we focus on our job and play like we have been then we can win.
Barry travelled down to us today with a mission that they have nothing to lose and everything to gain, like i said football is a funny game within the first 40 secounds the score was 1-1 unbeleivable.To sum this game at half time up was what i told them before the game underestimate them and we will lose score at half time was colegsirgar 1 - 4 Barry the first half they battered us and outplayed us totally which was a good way of telling the players not to underestimate anyone.
team talk at half time i said positive such as when we play we look dangerous and look like causing them problems all times, i did say then we need to talk more as its as if the players didnt know noones name, so again i challlenged them and trying lift their confidence saying football is a game of 2 halfves and we can do two things:fist is try and get back in to the game and try and win or the secound is throw the towel in and lose by a much bigger margin.
what do they do? - threw the towel in and lost 9-2 could have been much more all fairness to Barry this were much better than us today and they taught my players a lesson as in never to underestimate a team as it might come back to bite you.
overall i didnt want to be too critically i said what i needed to say such as where better than this, but i did mainly praise the team saying today goes as a bad day at the office but look lads where top and top for a reason i know what they are capable of doing and i cherish to help the team challenges for silverware this season.
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Marking Assignments for the first time
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Last week four first year diplomas handed me their assignments in which my tutor advised me to mark following the criteria on the spec, how long does 4 assignments take for the first time - a good 2 hours as it being my first time i wanted to double check them. Monday i asked my tutor if she was able to have a look at my marking with the grades i had given, any feedback/advice is very much needed. Today my tutor arranged a meeting and explained that the grades and feeback i had given the students were actually good, it came to bit of a surprise to me but also has given me a bit of a confidence boast especially lately when this course does take its turn for the worse at times.Marking these assignments will give me extra confidence in the neat future.
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Anlysis Sporting Performance
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todays lecture was a follwer up from last weeks, where the students were introduced to weightlifting/powerlifting events, todays session give some of the students a chance to experience performing some of the events whilst being filmed, this module for me has been amazing but tough in a sense you are teaching the learners to learn but learning as you teach, weightlifting is not my main strength but alot of wider reading had taken place has some of the students know the techniques of powerlifting events and would look like a clown speaking about the techjnique if it was wrong. its a lot of stress teaching but the students make it worth the while at times as they enjoy filming one another and analysing their performance and enjoying the lecture which pleases me in terms of the relationship that been made with the group. this unit made me learn so much about sports such as table tennis, squash that in the past i had little or no experience of the sport, i really enjoy the experience of teaching, but as the saying goes no guts no glory, the pgce is definetely the survival of the fittest.
In a sense you are teaching the learners to learn but learning as you teach. The experience you gain
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Coleg Sir Gar - Sports Academy/research project
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this week has been bit of mixed emotions, there are days where i feel like death and continuously ask the question is this for me? then there are days where i cannot get enough - well maybe thats taking it bit too far.
this week the sports academy first team reached the quarter final of the British colleges cup where they defeated pembroke college 5-1, this reseults states on how far the team has progressed since playing them 2 months ago where we were defeated 2-1. the team are a fantastic bunch of lads who really enjoy the sport and are looking to make history by winnnig this cup for the college which would be the first time in the colleges history.
there have been many sugguestion within the college staff room, considering that the sports academy within the college have fantastic partenrships and links with the rugby having links with scarletts and football having links with llanelli reds where they college players are representating their partenertships academy of u19s.the question that is mainly popped up is that many students are playing for the sports academy and enjoying representing u19s of the proffessional clubs but one problem is students education is being affected with their attendance and assignments levels decreasing.
this leads me to my research project where i really want to look in to the soloution of the future aspirations of students within the sports acadfemy and find out whether they intend to go to university after college, get a job or play proffession sports. it seems that so far the students whilst had a chat with certain ones they have admitted the only reason they attend college is to represent llanelli fc or the scarletts where they get a chance to impress where they can get given a chance at making a carreer out of playing. the coolege has stated that the sudents can only represent the sports team whilst still being enrolled on the courses if work suffers then so does the sport.
Past students have made it big in sports such as Darren Daniels and lou reed who were both past students and attended college just to improve their chances of success where they are know both playing proffessional for the scarletts.
is it fair that students only come to college to play sport - where there wasting their time and lecturers time knowing they dont want to attend college but the only way they can play sport for college is if they attend college - its like a no win no lose situation.
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Observation
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teaching the sports coaching unit for the 6th week, Observation number 1 complete for this module. stress isnt the word when it comes to worrying about being observed, the last time i think i was this nervous was possible when i took my driving test where every part of my body was shaking,
the class are mixed ages between 16-21 and over the previous weeks i feel i have made a good relationship with the group, they are an interesting group and have the privalage of teaching them.The session was based on their 3rd task of their firsrt assignment in which was now being set as from todays lecture, to begin the lecture i put them into groups and give them a technique we previous worked on in previous lectures each group with a different technique, they had to feedback to the rest of the class what they had learnt in lectures before christmas.
the powerpoint i felt went well along with the group activities throughout the session and giving all students a chance to feedback to the class, throughout the previous weeks students impressed me on how much they learnt and impressed me even more when they told handed task 3 in thinking i had set a date for the task.
once the lecture was over my mentor sat down with me and give me some verbal feedback strengths and weaknesses follow:
Strengths
- good relationship with group, gained in confidence compared to first lecturer,good knowledge
weaknesses
- session plan needed more depth
- use a variety of teaching methods rather than chalk and talk
- same students talking
- need to get students learning from doing themselve
throughout teaching this year i need to learn from mistakes in order to progress until the next observation, although it quite disheartennig looking at the weaknesses i totally agree with them, i will take on board these weaknesses in order to help me progress as a teacher.for next lecture i will improve on dusing different methods.
from my expereince as teaching so far its kinda reminds me of driving, you really learn more when you have passed your test same as teaching you learn more when the class is all yours.
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First Practical Session - On my own :)
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over the last couple of weeks i have been taking the lectures but being observed by lectures guiding me in the right way, which i really appreciate, i have been involved with the module Analysis of sporting performance for the last 3 weeks, the class is the 2nd year of the foundation degree.
Todays session was a follow up of last weeks where week 1 = history of individual sport week 2 = practical (learning basic skills of the sport,) and week 3 is again down the lesson centre for 2 hours plannig a competiton for the students to play sqaush.
In all honest there are days when i feel teaching is getting me down and then there are days like today where i feel there is nothing better teaching.the students were being filmed whislt performing and the competiton i set up seemed to go down well with the students. each student was filmed at least once in order to watch their performance back in the oncoming week and analysis their performance. it was a pleasure teaching the 2nd year (HE) the group are very mature and made life easy for me, considering what i was like when i was in college (a nightmare).
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My First Lecture for the Module -Practical Sports Coaching
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BTEC National Diploma Year 1 - Development fitness and coaching 9:15 - 11:05 am
The lecture was based on the third task of their assignment, which is techniques that are used by coaches in order to improve performance.The first session and techniques i decided to concentrate on was "Observation Analysis".
Having observed this class for a couple of lectures i understood that i was dealing with an interesting group of students, very energetic and inpatient, saying this i used the observation week to get to find out more about each student and try to get my point across .
Beginning of the lecture nerves seem to take over me as the classroom was rather small and 16 students all cramped together, seemed to get a positive relationship with the students which was a a plus, 2 hour lectures students seem rto get inpatient and very talkative but in fairness i didnt really have to stop the lesson to inform the students of their level of noise.
In reflection the class could see i was nervous to begin but after 10 minutes i felt in my comfort zone and began to slow down, i need to concentrate when giving sporting examples, that i use a range of sports rather than using mainly football.
Overall i am pleased with how the lesson went, time management was better this time, and students had met their objectives. quite a lot to improve on, but its a good start.
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How cool Am I :)
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Just finished looking at site on the syllabus with the structure of BTEC national diplomas in sports and here is the website
http://www.edexcel.com/migrationdocuments/BTEC%20Nationals/312638_BN018434_NACD_in_Sport_and_Exercise_Sciences_L3.pdf